Bill Maher net worth

Net Worth: $23 million

About Bill Maher

Recently it has been announced that Bill Maher net worth reaches 23 million dollars, the sum which is neither huge nor small. Bill Maher is known as an actor and a comedian, who was born in 1956 in New York City. He started his career as a stand-up comedian in late 70s – early 80s. In 1982, Bill Maher made constant visits to

the shows of Johnny Carson and David Letterman. He started his professional acting career when he was selected to be hosting a TV show called “Politically Incorrect” which aired on the Comedy Central channel and also on ABC.

The show was a huge success and brought first huge amounts of money to the overall Bill Maher net worth. However, in 2002, the show was cancelled because there was made an offensive remark during that show about the September 11th, 2001, tragedy. Due to this situation, he was constantly appearing on many television and radio shows in order to comment and explain his remark. In 2003, the HBO channel offered him to host a show called “Real Time with Bill Maher”. Moreover, in 2005 Bill Maher started contributing to the blog entitled “Huffington Post” in order to comment and describe his political views and attitudes. Moreover, in 2006 the star hosted the show Larry King Live on CNN. Appearance in this show added a lot of money to the total amount of Bill Maher net worth. Furthermore, later he made constant visits to that show as a guest.

In 2006, Bill Maher released his audio CD of his former show “Real Time with Bill Maher”. One of the most interesting facts about him is that he holds a record for having the most losses at Emmy awards, which is the total amount of 22. 11 out of these losses belong to the show “Politically Incorrect”. Moreover, the star is also known as an ex-boyfriend of a Playboy model Coco Johnsen, who sued him because of “pain and suffering”.

For that, Bill Maher had to pay her 9 million dollars. After that Bill Maher dated the New York Times one of the most best-selling authors Karrine Steffans for a short time. Now he is said to be involved with Cara Santa Maria. However, Bill Maher is still more known because of his attitude and commentaries towards political figures and people and overall to politics itself. Fortunately, this is what makes him famous and popular and consequently it increases Bill Maher net worth as well.